The scale of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is massive, and this is only going to get worse.
It’s probably safe to assume that if your website or blog hasn’t been hacked yet, then it’s only a matter of time before someone attempts to hack into your site.
On March 11, 2014, technology sites like Cnet.com reported that over 160,000+ legitimate WordPress sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites and blogs are attacked every year! Could yours be next?
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According to the Cnet report,
“With some old-fashioned trickery, hackers were able to get more than 162,000 legitimate WordPress-powered Web sites to mount a distributed-denial-of-service attack against another Web site.”
(Source: cnet.com/news/ddos-attack-is-launched-from-162000-wordpress-sites)
According to leading security firm Sucuri, hackers had leveraged a flaw to attack unsuspecting WP web sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every website with a security vulnerability can can provide an opportunity to hackers. No website or blog is completely immune from cyber attacks. Large, medium and small business web sites, personal blogs, government sites … even web sites owned by online security and anti-hacking experts can and have been targeted.
If a malicious user can discover a vulnerability, your website or blog can then be employed as a “bot” in a planned cyberattack against larger and more valued web sites.
The harsh reality is that brute-force software bots are very likely trying to hack into your website right now. Whether they will break into your site successfully or not, depends on how hard or easy you will make it for them to continue persisting until they work out a way to get in, or decide to look for an easier target.
How Much Information Are You Broadcasting To Hackers About Your Site?
If you visit Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
(Hackertarget – Website Security Scan Product image source: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the scan will return a number of results and details about your website …
(Hackertarget – website security check results. Screenshot: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the above tool that if you are able to access all of this information, then so can hackers.
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The ability to see which version of WordPress you are using, which plugins and themes you have installed, and which files have been uploaded to certain directories in your site can all be potentially useful information to hackers, as this informs them about potentially exploitable holes or weaknesses, especially where site owners haven’t updated their software versions.
Fortunately, there is a solution that can stop broadcasting all of this information about your site and protect against malicious attacks.
Blog Defender Security Solution For WordPress Sites
Product Description
Blog Defender is a suite of WordPress security video tutorials, plugins and tools, plus WordPress security documentation in PDF and DOC formats.
Matt Garrett, the creator of the BlogDefender security suit developed BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress site he set up for his mother had been hacked into. This particular site had literally no value to offer, yet it was still hacked.
Matt only became aware of this after being suspended by his host and observing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had taken place inside the site, as well as the addition of several phishing files designed to lure unsuspecting victims to the site and hijack financial information.
(Screenshot: Blog Defender)
Matt’s experience is evidence that all websites are valuable to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you WordPress installation for security weaknesses …
And let’s you fix these quickly, easily and inexpensively …
WP Plugins
The product suite comes with 3 plugins for WordPress:
Pro Plugin # 1 in the Blog Defender product suite provides automated backups …
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Plugin #1 lets you do secure backups to your server, external servers and leading cloud storage solutions using a number of backup methods (e.g. FTP), perform complete or partial backups, exclude files or tables from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating sites to different domains or server locations), do mass text replacements in databases, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Pro Plugin # 2 provides your website with security …
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Plugin #2 provides a range of website security functions (see “Plugin Features” section below).
The third plugin allows you to scan your content and files to detect whether any of your files have been tampered with, and fix any problems detected …
(Product image: Blog Defender)
Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious scripts have been inserted into your site files, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where others benefit from your hard work without reciprocating the favor).
Tutorials Videos
In addition to the plugins, the Blog Defender suite of products also includes 7 training modules in video format plus PDF/DOC guides that show you exactly how to protect your site from malicious attacks …
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More info:
Benefits
Here are just some of the many benefits and advantages of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your site:
Ready To Go To Work In No Time
The plugins included in the Blog Defender product suite install just like every other plugin. Simply upload a zip file containing the plugins to your Plugins folder via your admin user account and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as a step-by-step training product that will walk you through the website security process and show you what to do, including how to set things up, and even which plugins you can use for free to get things done without paying unnecessary costs.
Additional benefits and advantages include:
- Secure your WordPress site from hackers, spammers, bad bots, data mining tools and malicious users attempting to ruin your business for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Helps Prevent Intellectual Property Theft – If you’re an information product author (e.g. downloadable ebooks, videos, etc.), your product can end up as freeware on free sharing sites.
- Avoid Getting Blocked By Search Engines – When a site has been hacked, you should expect to go through a serious amount of frustration and aggravation. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through the issues these have caused. In the meantime, your, websites could be suspended by your host, or even blocked by search engines. Additionally, your contacts could end up being spammed, your customer list and financial details can be stolen, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and much more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender offers many unique features to site owners.
The product helps you fix all of the following security areas and vulnerabilities:
- Webhost Security Advisory
- Plugin Security Audits
- Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- MySQL Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hide WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam
- File Monitoring
- Link Monitoring
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automating Core WP Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical sequence of steps to help secure your web site, addressing hosting security, using scanning and detection tools to quickly identify risky WordPress themes and WordPress plugins, and then helping you implement website-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender website security process. Product image: Blog Defender)
User Testimonials
Here are just some testimonials plugin customers have provided for the Blog Defender security suite:
”I’ve had to go through the inconvenience of a hacked blog before and let me tell you it’s not nice. With online security becoming an increasing problem, especially with WordPress, this is a great way to secure your blog. I’ll be following Matt’s training and securing all my blogs…Great job.” JohnThornhill – www.johnthornhill.com
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”Since working with blogs, I… like many others, have been concerned about how to handle the constant threat of blog attacks. After having a look at Blog Defender you can’t help but become most aware of the vulnerable areas all bloggers need to protect. Blog Defender is viable WordPress blog security prevention system that offers video instruction along with 3 software plugins that are free to download. The instruction shows the optimum settings on how to use the free plugins that will allow you top level force against blog hacker attacks.” Micheal Nicholas, Impact Info Marketing
Useful Tips
According to the plugin developer, since Blog Defender was first released, no Blog Defender-secured websites or blogs have been hacked.
Matt Garrett, the product developer states on his site, however …
“With the volume of attacks nowadays … we probably won’t hold forever, so we’ve been busy creating even tougher WordPress security.”
Cybersecurity is is a perpetual game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the information and tools developers can access. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with an easier WordPress security solution that doesn’t need constant attention, is quite inexpensive and it’s as good if not better than most premium security products or services currently being offered at a higher price.
Blog Defender Plugin Support
The product is well-supported, can be used by both Mac and PC users, is compatible with the latest WordPress release and is backed by a risk-free, 30 day, complete money-back guarantee.
Plugin Cost
Blog Defender is normally available for personal use only on unlimited sites. When we last checked, however, it was also being sold with Developer rights, allowing users to secure client sites as well.. Price = $47.00.
Please Note: Price details for the Blog Defender product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. When we last checked, the plugin is selling for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the plugin developer when you visit the plugin website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Install These Plugins
Regardless of the type of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, you cannot afford to ignore the importance of website security.
WordPress is a secure platform, but neglecting simple maintenance tasks like ensuring that your WP software, plugins and WordPress themes are kept up-to-date, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can expose your site to attacks by hackers and bots.
Adopting security procedures such as the one Blog Defender provides, will help you learn what your security responsibilities are as the site owner, what hosting companies can and can’t do to help prevent your sites being hacked, what security features to look for in a webhost, and which tools can make the task of securing your WordPress installation easier.
For full details, visit the plugin website here: Blog Defender Security Product Suite For WordPress Sites
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